FIX THE DEBT WINDS DOWN LOBBYING PRESENCE: The Fix the Debt Coalition dropped Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti after spending a year and $200,000 with the firm. This is Fix the Debt’s second termination in the past month, having dropped the Campbell Spencer Group mid-March. The group is hasn’t terminated its relationship with Clark Geduldig Cranford & Nielsen. The anti-debt group’s youth-focused campaign, the Can Kicks Back, found itself running into financial trouble earlier this year. Fix the Debt did not immediately respond to comment.

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FEWELL TESTIFIES ON WATER ISSUES: Troutman Sanders’s Brent Fewell has filed to represent the National Association of Water Companies and the United Water, Inc. coalition. Fewell — a former principal deputy assistant administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency — said the registrations are related to his testimony on behalf of associations in front of the Senate EPW Committee. “I was asked to testify a few weeks back on this matter before EPW on behalf of United Water and the NAWC,” he emailed PI. The work is related to proposed changes to the Safe Drinking Water Act. The bill was introduced in the wake of a chemical spill in West Virginia chemical spill that left 300,000 without water.

GOOD FRIDAY AFTERNOON where it’s been 25 years since an NHL goalie scored the first goal in a playoff game. Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers fired a shot into the Washington Capitals' empty net during a playoff game. Send your lobbying news, gossip, tips and scoops to btau@politico.com. And keep up with PI on Twitter by following @ByronTau or @PoliticoPI.

ALPINE GROUP HOSTS SHERROD BROWN: The Alpine Group is hosting an April fundraiser for Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown at its Capitol Hill offices. The dinner event comes with a suggested donation level of $2,600 for supporters and $1,000 to attend. Also: The invite — prepared by a Brown fundraising consultant —contains a disclosure that contributions are capped at $2,500 per election or $5,000 per cycle. But those are outdated numbers. The 2013-2014 cycle has a limit of $2,600/$5,200.

SUNSCREEN COALITION LAUNCHES PSA: The PASS Coalition (Public Access to SunScreens) is out with a new public service announcement. The coalition is pushing for passage of the recently introduced Sunscreen Innovation Action — a bill that would reform the FDA sunscreen approval process. A woman named Jackie King — who is living with stage IV melanoma — has a new PSA here: http://bit.ly/1jynq97

SIDLEY AUSTIN HIRES BARLOW: The law firm Sidley Austin has rehired David B. Barlow — the U.S. attorney for the District of Utah — will rejoin Sidley as a partner. Barlow will reside in Sidley’s Washington, D.C., office and will focus his practice on the service of the firm’s life sciences clients. Barlow originally joined Sidley in 2000 and became a partner in 2006. During his time at Sidley, he handled a wide variety of cases, with particular emphasis on pharmaceutical, medical device and mass tort matters.

INTERMARKETS BRINGS ON NAUGLE: The marketing firm Intermarkets has hired Matt Naugle as its strategic media manager. Prior to joining the company, Naugle was the research director for the Republican outside group Citizens United. He also has worked with the Council for National Policy's Conservative Action Project. Intermarkets — a nonpartisan firm — often works with conservative media like the Drudge Report and prominent right-of-center groups such as the Senate Conservatives Fund.

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REPUBLICAN CAPITALIZE ON MCCUTCHEON: The three big GOP party committees are banding together for fundraising. According to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, the newly formed Republican Victory Fund is a joint fundraising committee composed of the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. It will be able to solicit checks of nearly $100,000. http://politi.co/OPGeVZ

CASSIDY: HELIUM IS NO LAUGHING MATTER: “It wasn’t all squeaky Mickey Mouse voices on Capitol Hill as Congress successfully worked to stop a historic shortage of helium late last year. It may surprise you that the inert gas inflates more than just balloons — it is a critical to America’s manufacturing economy as it is used in its liquid form to cool medical equipment like MRIs and in the manufacture of LCD TVs, semiconductor chips, fiber-optic cables as well as powering NASA’s rockets,” the firm writes on its blog. With accompanying video. http://www.cassidy.com/blog/457/

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